Children's Nutrition and Healthy Weight

Learning how to eat well as a child can set the stage for a lifetime of good food choices.

Children have different nutritional needs than adults. Ensure your child’s diet is adequate.

Many children need encouragement to eat fruits and vegetables. Here’s how to help your child.

Children at any age can have constipation – from a tiny newborn to an active high schooler.

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I have a formula that you can use to calculate the calories you will need for your ideal body weight. Get ready for some math! Let's start by looking at how many calories you would need per day just to maintain... continue reading about How do I compute my basic healthy calorie intake? What are some basic facts about how many calories a person needs to burn to lose weight?

Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Our society certainly sends a mixed message when it comes to our weight: the media bombards us with images that equate being beautiful and glamorous with being thin - and yet we are bombarded even more with ads... continue reading about My body seems to have found its favorite weight and its hard to budge it from there. Do people have a normal weight for their body, despite media pressure to be thinner or heavier?

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